Re: IPCop vs Smoothwall

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Author: George Toft
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: IPCop vs Smoothwall
The current version (2.0) uses 2.4.x kernel and iptables

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Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 21:13 -0700, George Toft wrote:
>
>>Let me be the lone voice in support of smoothwall...
>>
>>I like Smoothwall for the following reasons:
>>- Point and click web-based interface
>>- Plug in modules to add additional functionality
>>- It is supported by Fujitsu and USRobotics (well, kinda)
>>- Squid does transparent proxying so it can't be bypassed
>>- "It just works"
>>
>>I don't like Smoothwall for the following reasons:
>>- The OS is just plain weird. Yes, it is Linux, but it does not look
>>like Debian, Slack nor any RH/Fedora derivitave. I may be mistaken, but
>>it is different.
>>- Running SmoothWall takes a beefier box than I expected. I am having
>>problems making it run reliably on a 486DX2 with 40 MB RAM :) It runs
>>really well on 1.7GHz/256MB RAM.
>
> ----
> the last time I looked...and it's been some # of years, smoothwall was
> based on Red Hat 6.2 system - ipchains, though they probably have done
> some updating.
>
> ipcop I understand is done with LFS.
>
> Both had very spartan intentions to be run on minimal hardware setups
>
> Craig
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